Buying Professional

* Implements Commodity strategies to ensure long-term, cost-efficient supply of materials.

* Contributes to implementation and ensure usage of globally defined methods, processes and systems to ensure high process efficiency and process compliance (e.g. compliant Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) process, Procurement guidelines, IT systems).

* Prepares and conducts negotiations  to obtain highest feasible savings.

* Generates, documents and implements savings to contribute to the success of the business and make results transparent.

* Executes Supplier Management processes (e.g. qualification, selection, evaluation, development, classification).

* Ensures a close cooperation with Internal Customers (requisitioners) to ensure customer care and early involvement.

* Provides supplier information to the contract manufacturing  and conducts project/product / process specific supplier evaluations (project evaluations).